#Mendev

[blighted-elf]

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Celebration in Kenabres Square

[queen-scribbles]

New contender for favorite party banter dropped; I don't think I've gotten this one before (wouldn't surprise me if he's right)

[harrycollins]

Astarion beating Daeran in that cuntiness poll is so sad... It is obvious that he is winning thanks to people who only know Astarion voting for him because Daeran would make him cry in a minute and drink his wine as if nothing happened afterwards.

[churning-the-sea-of-milk]

Was anyone gonna tell me about the beardless dwarf smith from kingmaker coming back in the newest wotr dlc and finally transitioning or was I supposed to find out by myself because hoo boy did I find out and I am so happy for her

[rangedreign]

can we talk about how dae brings a hookah to your not-a-date

[thedragonagelesbian]

general furio solaretti you will always be famous

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

Celia & Cecio backstory!!!!! Silver & Gold!! the horrible siblings!!!

this covers their early lives, and until both reach the point they would be at the start of their respective pwotr runs, with less detail towards the end as the fine details are still being worked out. warnings for mentions of ill health brought on by childbirth and one line mention of sex work.

Celia was born to a unknown father and a Chelaxian mother in Westcrown, they both lived in relative poverty, with her mother doing washing work, unfortunately, between her own poverty stricken life and the cold and harsh nature of washing clothes to support her and her baby Celia, her health was bad enough before she gave birth, and she had been advised not to have another child, something she did not worry about because she was happy with her and her baby.

When Celia was five, her mother caught the eye of a visiting merchant from Andoran, who she fell in love with, quickly finding herself pregnant. He made honeyed promises of paying doctors to ensure her health, but a month before she was due to give birth, he returned to Andoran, and his wife.

When Celia was six, she and a fellow washerwoman acted as the midwives, helping her mother through a painful birth that resulted in Cecio - named after the chickpeas of a foreign dish she had craved during pregnancy. This had a major impact on their mothers health, leading to Celia having to gradually take over raising her brother and being the breadwinner, through begging, thievery, and odd jobs. 

When Celia was 12 and little Cecio was six, their mother finally succumbed to her illness, leaving them behind. Shortly after, a man appeared on their doorstep, taking Cecio to his father, leaving Celia behind, only told through a neighbor's eavesdropping on the conversation. 

Now alone, she takes more and more dangerous jobs, leading to her narrowly escaping arrest in a hellknight raid on the tavern she gets her jobs at. The voice and stature of one of the hellknights seems familiar, and when she crawls out of her cubby hole the next morning and is met in the alleyway with a kind voice coming from the hellknight, she realizes that one of the previous regulars was an undercover hellknight.

She sits on the roof of where she used to live, and talks to her neighbor, debating whether she should sell her body, like her neighbor, her life like her fellow criminals, or her soul by attempting to join the hellknights. She chooses the hellknights, and spends weeks refinding the hellknight, monitoring them, and finding out who their target is.

Eventually, she meets the hellknight again, handing over all the information she could get on the target, including some only a street kid could find. She becomes an informant for the Hellknight, eventually becoming an Armiger. 

Life as a Hellknight informant and later armiger is tough, but it has the order and coin that she needs. Eventually she finds information about an Andoran noble taking in a bastard son, one with her little Cecios silver hair and eyes. 

She slowly gathers information on him, until she finally manages to send letters to her little brother, his replies painted a harsh picture, a distant father and a resentful stepmother, an older and younger brother, respectively resistant to his presence and ignorant of the whole situation. And worse of all, his training is not funded, so while his only path to success is through the art of war, he doesn't have the coin needed to fund that path.

Soon most of Celia's earnings are dispatched on merchant ships to Andoran, with only the money for her necessities kept behind. These letters and spending of coin are disguised as an informant network, and indeed she rises quickly in importance due to her knowledge of the inner workings of the Andoran council, all taken from her brother's gossip about the people who visit the house and don’t see his presence.

Thanks to his sister's support, Cecio is able to become a squire for a paladin, and thanks to his information, Celia is able to become an armiger as well as be respected as an information gatherer. 

It seems like soon Celia will take her Hellknight test, and Cecio will be able to be the son his father respects.

[Unfortunately, Celia is sent on a mission to seek the corruption in the Mendevian crusades, and Cecio is sent along with his knight master to the very same crusades]

[arainaizevran]

it would be funny if tane was from minata and she dropped out of demon slayer homeschooling and ended up being a local witcher-esque monster hunter. often called to hunt down manananggal and wayang but it turns out she's actually friends with most of them

[shiawasekai]

Time for Camellia... I have the time so may as well cross another companion off the list.

Now that's one that brings a lot of complicated feelings.

First and foremost, Nela didn't mind the bloodthirstiness. She knew, it was obvious, but she didn't care. She isn't an idiot and, even if most of her knowledge previous to the game about the Crusades was theoretical (and painfully outdated), it didn't take her long to understand people like Camellia are very much a necessity in the Crusades. You can't fill an army only with lofty ideals, treating it as a requisite is stupid.

She may also have a personal beef with pushing ideals on people. Just saying.

Their relationship was still much colder than with other companions, and Nela kept it mostly at a professional level. Nela is Andoren, so nobility is out of the question, but she spent a significant part of her life being fairly poor. Camellia's obvious disdain for those below her station was much more of a real problem to her.

Still, she was doing her part. Nela wasn't going to let her personal discomfort get in the way of work.

That's it until the Act 3 quest happens.

What then happened wasn't motivated by morality or her own personal feelings. Camellia was useful in theory, yes, but she stopped to be so when enemy corpses weren't enough to keep her satisfied. An asset out of control isn't an asset, it's a liability. Common soldiers and such were no less valuable to her.

She couldn't trust Camellia to be upfront with her anymore, and she couldn't afford to spend the kind of resources necessary to keep watch over her. Besides, for starters, who was going to be able to keep Camellia in check when if she kept her mythic powers? Most if not all guards she could assign to control her would be easy prey.

Besides, feeding blood to a crazed spirit was definitely not tracking as a logical and productive course of action either.

So she had her killed.

[mathlann]

Lifespan-gap romances stress me out so much, I don't know why I'm doing them in two different games rn.

[azatas]

feeling like redesigning my pwotr character which is unfortunate because she has the most aesthetically pleasing pinterest board of all my ocs by far

[spyridonya]

I will forever love stories and AUs with Daeran lowkey panicking when Galfrey finally abdicates the throne.

[queen-scribbles]

Trinne/Lann epilogue

Sweet Shelyn, this is almost 2k😅 ---

∙ They get a couple years of peace and quiet just the two of them to figure out being married without the Worldwound hanging ominously in the background, start settling into a routine and adjusting to quirks, that sort of thing. (Look, I know Trinne has foibles, Lann's gotta have some too, even if it's minor stuff, there will be things to work out.)

∙ The adventuring/visiting Lann's mom/etc mostly happens in that first couple years. Trinne was already a wandering soul before her arrival at Kenabres, she's more than happy to go on sea-faring adventures and an indefinite stay in Nerosyan with her husband. :3 (esp. bc in Nerosyan she and Ria can chat. And they have the same favorite subject. >:3)

∙ Trinne figures out pretty damn quick the first time she gets pregnant bc her cycle is normally so regular you could use it to start a calendar. 😅 Missing one is easy to catch. Waits another month just to be safe before she tells Lann. He is, of course, over the moon and just a teeny tiny bit anxious. He wants kids, they've talked abut this, but there's an inherent added danger with him being a mongrel they can't ignore.

∙ He swears not to coddle her too much bc he knows how capable she is yada yada. She has no intention of holding him to that promise bc she knows he won't be able to keep it the whole nine months. (a wise decision on her part, he doesn't, he can't help it xD)

∙ It's right around this point they go back to visit the mongrels and find out Sull died. Someone's been serving as interim leader, but they're ready for Lann to step in as chief. That combined with Trinne being pregnant is enough they decide to stay put for a while. (Which Trinne appreciates; morning sickness and seasickness are individually awful, she doesn't need to deal with both at the same time xD) They've gotten to see plenty of the world, time to focus on the kids part of their goal for a few years.

∙ Trinne gets really big really early, to the point a couple people comment about it being unusual for her first pregnancy. This ratchets Lann's anxiety a teeny bit higher, thinking about his brothers and worrying if the baby's a mongrel and will be a hard birth. (It doesn't help he overhears Trinne joke to Seelah this kid either moves a lot or has an unfair number of elbows. He's half convinced it's some multi-armed mongrel kid (who they'll love, obviously--assuming he or she survives and what about Trinne?)

∙ She's always ready to calm him down if she sees him getting nervous; nothing feels wrong, just big. It's not until the last month or so she gets a lil bit of Pregnancy Jitters herself. (She goes on bedrest the last couple weeks and it drives her CRAZY with boredom. Especially bc she can't find a comfy position to sit in for sketching. V grumpy bard.) Lann really struggles with not coddling her the last month or two.

∙ His mom is visiting when Trinne goes into labor, which proves to be a good thing, only partly bc she's a "voice of experience". Lann's so torn between 'I can't watch' and 'I wanna be with my wife' that Trinne's eventually like "I love you, but OUT" and Seelah and/or Ria have to pull him from the room and distract him so he doesn't explode from stress.

∙ It's not a mongrel baby, it's twins. :D

∙ And they look "normal" when all is said and done and Lann's allowed back in the room (lol). Trinne: "See there was an unfair number of elbows--because it's an unfair number of children."

∙ Looks like 100% normal, 100% identical twin boys with a ridiculous amount of hair ("I thought babies were bald").

∙ Until they open their eyes while Trinne and Lann are mid-stress-relief-laugh and it turn out that's not entirely the case--one of them has one reptilian eye. It's the same color as Lann's lizard-side eye(and also on the left), so pretty obvious where it came from even if Trinne jokes she DID introduce dragon blood so they can't know. That's it. Otherwise he and his brother are 100% human-looking.

∙ The way Lann practically melts upon Trinne being okay(his first concern tbh) and gives her along, long kiss before even asking to hold one of their(!!!!) kids(!!!!).

∙ Name the boys Rian and Jory. (Rian has the lizard eye) They stay 99.5% identical growing up, love to play at being pirates so they can wear eyepatches and make people guess which of them is which. >:D (It tickles them pink that Trinne and Lann a) play along and act unsure but b) always guess right) It's not until late teens/early twenties when they do different hairstyles/clothes that it gets easier for non-family(and non-Aunt Seelah or Uncle Woljif) people to tell them apart.

∙ There's another kid three years after the boys--a girl they name Genevieve. Lann comments that's an awful lot of name for someone so small, Trinne points out they don't have to use the whole thing("we can shorten it 'til you think she'll fit," she teases). They call her Eve, which sticks basically her whole life aside from formal or You're In Big Trouble, Young Lady situations.

∙ Rian and Jory have so-dark-it's-almost-black brown hair and hazel eyes that can look light brown or green depending on the light. You can see bits of both parents in them, even aside from the lizard eye--Trinne's jaw and ears, Lann's human-side cheekbones and eyebrows.

∙ Eve, on the other hand, is the spitting (female) image of her daddy if he weren't half-lizard; green eyes and the lighter brown hair etc. (So claims Trinne, invoking 'artist's eye for faces' if Lann protests. Which he does. "She's too pretty to look like me." // "I think you're pretty." // "You're biased."// "Damn straight I am. 😘" /cue the boys screeching in exaggerated disgust as Mom and Dad kiss for TWENTY WHOLE SECONDS in the middle of prepping dinner or whatever.

(∙might do another daughter, Aviva, but I'm still deciding about her. IF she does exist, she's probably an adorable lil tiefling owing to the whole Savamelekh sting thing bc I'm sorry Owlcat but you can't have something that dramatic happen to a party member[MY ROMANCE] and expect me not to do something with it esp. if you won't. I just really like the idea of her being tickled she has horns like her daddy but she's specialer bc she has T W O horns and Lann really leaning into it and playing it up 🥰)

∙ Lann makes Trinne the rat pastries every year for her birthday and their anniversary (3 Neth) and any other time she asks. He does a lot of experimenting with cooking and turns out to be very good at it with access to proper ingredients. Much better than her, for sure.

∙ He is, to no one's surprise except maybe his own, an extremely good chief for the mongrels. Once everything's established and running smoothly he will still occasionally leave someone else in charge and go off on adventures(sometimes solo, sometimes with Trinne + kids. Those are fun :D).

∙ Trinne occasionally runs into people who recognize her or piece together from descriptions they've heard that she's the former Knight-Commander(for good or ill), and has to deal with brief bout of celebrity. She's not exactly a wallflower type personality, so even when traveling it can crop up when she catches people's attention.

∙ Trinne is v happy she ditched being Commander before having kids, she wants time with her husband and babies more than she wants to be in charge. xD (her "beautiful boys" she says pre-Eve, which makes Lann roll his eyes)

∙ She DOES genuinely find him attractive, but he's so easy to fluster via teasing about being handsome/pretty/etc that she can't help doing it a lot. >:3 She means every word, no matter how jokingly delivered.

∙ [also] As a result of Savamelekh's sting, I'm toying with saying Lann gets a comparatively long life for a mongrel. Still dies young by human/half-elf standards, but for all his joking about ten years, I'm thinking about giving him twice that and calling it demon venom CON boost. xD (There is a scar from the sting, right below his solar plexus. Not big or obvious, just a little half inch long red mark that never goes away no matter the healing magic. It's ticklish, but only Trinne knows that. :3)

∙ When he dies, there's not really even external signs of aging, just things giving out. Trinne thinks it's monstrously unfair she doesn't even get to tease him about going grey and still has to watch him die. (She started getting grey streaks a little before then and he 100% teased her, no fair she doesn't get to return the favor. don't take him, she's not ready yet)

∙ Knowing mongrels tend to die young and they got way longer than expected doesn't make it hurt any less. She's also mad he won't even get to see their kids grow all the way up. (the twins would be 17ish by this point :) ) Lann is trying very hard to focus on the "got an extra decade married to the most beautiful woman on Golarian, biased who me?" angle.

∙ Lann makes one (1) joke about going off to die alone so she doesn't have to watch the process(bc he remembers how hard it was with his dad). Trinne immediately is all incensed; "DON'T. YOU. DARE. Get it through your idiot potato head[affectionate] I want you around as long as possible--" She tries to undercut the vehemence of her instinctive reaction with something jokey about not depriving her of his handsome face and wonderful sense of humor sooner than necessary but it's too late, he saw how much the idea rattles her and he's like "Okay, okay, I won't."//"You promise?"// "Promise." and he doesn't.

∙ So, in sum, extremely happy life together, though not nearly as long as either of them would want, all 99% of their adventures are of their own choosing, three--possibly four--wonderful children. Not a bad life, overall. <3

[betterlucky]

[shadowglens]

about to think some post-wotr thoughts that are so cringe and self-indulgent for amalice

[rangedreign]

i think the azata path should have more events where you can reinvigorate farmland

i mean why are we having food shortages when i have epic nature powers???